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Submission + - Marlinspike's solution to the SSL CA problem (convergence.io)

Trevelyan writes: In his Blackhat talk on the past and future of SSL (you can find the video and slide if you really try, or just buy them from BH) Moxie Marlinspike explains the problems of SSL today, and the history of how it came to be so. He then goes on to not only propose a soution, but he's implemented it as well: Convergence, it'll let you turn off all those untrustable CAs in you browser and still safely use HTTPS. It even works with self-signed certificates. You still need to trust someone, but not forever like CAs. The system has 'Notaries', which you can ask anonymously for their view on a certificates authenticity. You can pool Notaries for a consensus, and add/remove them at any time.

Comment Thunderbolt == Docking port (Score 1) 207

Apple hasn't marketed as such, as least not in this neck of the woods, but Thunderbolt is clearly a Docking port. The first one ever on a MacBook!! (That I know of)

Take a look at their new Thunderbolt display. With one cable connection, your MacBook gets network, sound, firewire, USB and power(!), all via your external Display. No need to attach a second cable.

Considering that Thunderbolt already is a DisplayPort connection, I don't see the benefit of connection a second graphics card over the PCI-e connection. Some says to have a more powerfull card, over 4x PCIs 2.0?, for games. However lots of suppliers have hard PCexpress (also on MacBooks) GFX cards, but none work with Macs because Apple wont play fair with regards to GFX drivers in OS X.

In the end, to be honest, I find it far more exciting that I can finally replace the 8 cables that I have to plug into my MacBook with just one.

Comment Re:Initial unlocked numbers a bit surprising (Score 1) 274

A lot of European countries have Laws that say the phone must be unlocked after the initial contract is finished.

My GF had a very old little Nokia feature phone, which she recently decided she wanted to give to her parents. The operator had to send it off and post it back to her, because its one of those Nokias that have no unlock code. However to her it was all free, regardless of her being a customer or not!

AFAIK in Italy your not allowed to sell locked phones. A lot of the unlocked iPhones in the EU come from Italy.

Comment Re:Summary is false (Score 1) 380

I have IPv6 through my WRT610N too. However I'm not sure if that is a feature from cisco, or a by-product of the linux kernel used in the official firmware.

One thing of note is the complete lack of IPv6 options in the user interface. Also as far as I can tell the various services in the router do not support IPv6 either (can you access the web interface via IPv6?).

I do have serial access, but I have check to see if netfilters is configured for ipv6. My guess is no, so your/my IPv6 access is unfiltered/unprotected.

So I am left with my original thought, it's not an intended nor a supported feature. Just an accident due to the linux kernel.
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Facebook Rolls Out Redesigned Profile Pages 211

alphadogg writes "The [Facebook Profile] changes include a clustered listing of biographical information under the user name at the top of the page, including such details as the person's job, hometown, relationship status, where they went to college, what languages they speak and birthdate. Beneath that will appear a set of the five most recent photos that a user allows to be posted at their profile page." The changes unsurprisingly are being met with mixed opinions ranging from rage to anger.

Comment Re:What has this to do with sony yanking linux? (Score 5, Insightful) 337

Homebrew scene != Pirate scene

The homebrew guys are generally more motivated and talented then the pirates. Almost all console hacks come from the homebrew guys so that they can run their own stuff (and linux).

The pirates tend to take homebrew code and use it to run pirated games.

The entire time that PS2 had the "Other OS" option it was not cracked, because the homebrew community could already run their stuff. Compare that to XBOX and WII both of which have been broken a long time ago. As soon as Sony closed off the homebrew community, the inevitable would happen.

Of course its not so black and white, there is overlap between homebrew and pirates, but not as much as you might assume. Take a look at TeamTwizzers long campaign against pirates from using their code. They even tried in the beginning to have a dialogue with Nintendo about ways to support homebrew and keep the pirates out.

Going back to PS2; even with the "Other OS" option the advanced graphic features were locked, so homebrew games could never take full advantage of the hardware (neither could Other OS be used for pirate games). Some months ago a way was found for full hardware access, and not long after that Sony reacted by removing the Other OS feature.

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